Ahram Online Tunisia’s Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, and the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, discussed, on Tuesday, the possibility of adding the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to the July agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The two officials were at the meeting …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, discussed the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue with counterparts from the US, France, the UK, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya at the international coalition against the Islamic State in Rome on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a Congolese …
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Egypt Independent Ethiopia has rejected, Friday, the proposals of Egypt and Sudan to refer the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute to the UN Security Council. It accused the two downstream countries of undermining the ongoing negotiations under the auspices of the African Union. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry confirmed, in …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, discussed several regional issues with Foreign and Security Advisor to the German Chancellor Jan Hecker in Berlin on Wednesday. Shoukry arrived in Berlin, Tuesday, to attend the 2nd Berlin Conference on Libya at an invitation from the German Foreign Minister and the United …
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Amr Kandil – Ahram Online “The international community will not accept any threats to the stability of the Horn of Africa or to the relations between River Nile riparian countries”, said Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Sunday, as he tackled the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. Aboul-Gheit’s remarks …
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Ahram Online “There had been reports of executions of civilians, sexual violence against children and forced displacement in Tigray”, said Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday. At the opening of a three-week session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Bachelet, noted that …
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Mohamed Soliman – Ahram Online “Sudan sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling on it to oblige Ethiopia not to proceed with the second filling its Blue Nile dam, without reaching a legal binding deal with downstream countries”, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq said on Saturday. …
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Menna Alaa al-Din – Ahram Online Ethiopia slammed the resolution taken by the Arab League, on Tuesday, backing Egypt and Sudan’s water security amid deadlock in negotiations over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a statement, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said it is “dismayed by the resolution of …
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Ahram Online “Addis Ababa’s insistence on going ahead with filling the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the absence of a legally binding agreement with the downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, violates the rules of international law”, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry reiterated on Tuesday. Shoukry addressed …
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Egypt Today Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights, a founding member of the African ‘Nile for Peace’ Initiative stressed, on Sunday, “the need to delay the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) until the relevant parties could reach a binding agreement on this score”. The …
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